Antiques Hobbyist Prints

This week on The Antique Roadkill

Barcode on Ancient Greek Vase

'...then Johannes Gutenberg built the first bookcase'

'This is a wind-up, isn't it?'

Antiques

Auctioneer: 'Sold to the lady whose husband just walked out!'

Reluctantly, Indiana Jones reaches for the true cup of Christ.

"Now we're leaving the hall of stuff we stole from other cultures and entering the hall of stuff we paid too much for."

Acme Slide Rules: 'We'll be here and ready, when the current electronic gadgetry fad fades!'

Tourist and Butterfly and Goat

'...And it comes with valuable coupons toward your next purchase.'

Books of Tablets

Authentic Rinkelmier chair (Built 1723)

"I'm still looking, sir?"

Casual skydiving.

The Old Curiosity Shop

Antique silver

"I've up cycled your Chippendale!"

Queen Anne

I brake for anything discarded that I can bring to the antiques roadshow.

My own museum.

'I'm afraid my husband will stop loving me as I get older.' - 'Mine would never do that with me. You know why, don't you. He's an antique dealer.'

'And exactly where did you find the 'antique salami slicer'?'

'But Grandma, how did you text on them?'

'Now we come to what it would have been worth'

'Don't even think about it, Walter.'

"And what do you think my husband is worth?"

Keeping Warm in the Highlands

"Well, Emmeline, what's new?"

"I just love these genuine old tapestries on the walls, with their medieval calm. Oh, my—is that a Roycroft lamp?!"

"Yeah, I'm selling my bowling balls. Free delivery to anyone who lives downhill."

Antique Ailments

"If you get that vase, I get this bearded lamp."

'Why is it that the weirder and older something is, the more it's worth?'

National Pottery Live